Posts Tagged ‘Benedict Cumberbatch’

The Abominable Bride is the first new episode of BBC1’s Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman as Dr John Watson, since series three ended in mid-January 2014. Series 4 isn’t expected until early 2017 – well, both BenCum and Freeman are busy men – and this special episode has been expected […]

Black Mass tells the true story of Whitey Bulger (Johnny Depp), the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf. And now, a third trailer has been released… John Connolly (Joel Edgerton) […]

Black Mass tells the true story of Whitey Bulger (Johnny Depp), the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf. And now, a second trailer has been released… John Connolly (Joel Edgerton) […]

Black Mass tells the true story of Whitey Bulger (Johnny Depp), the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf. John Connolly (Joel Edgerton) and James “Whitey” Bulger grew up together on […]

BAFTA Television 2015 Awards are on May 10th on BBC1. The nominations were announced today and they are as follows: Comedy and Comedy Entertainment Programme in 2015 Charlie Brooker’s Weekly Wipe – Charlie Brooker (right), Annabel Jones, Nick Vaughan-Smith, Ali Marlow Would I Lie To You – Peter Holmes, Rachel Ablett, Ruth Phillips, Richard Cohen […]

The Imitation Game begins in 1951 with Detective Nock (The Casual Vacancy‘s Rory Kinnear) and Sgt Staehl (Ideal‘s Tom Goodman-Hill) turn up to the reported break-in at Alan Turing’s house, where he’s reluctant to talk about anything other than to warn them to stay out otherwise they might come into contact with his home-made cyanide… […]

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies takes us back into J.R.R. Tolkein‘s Middle Earth for the final time. The poster hypes this entry as being “The Definining Chapter” – it’s not, it’s just the last one. The film begins with Smaug (Benedict Cumberbatch) travelling towards Laketown to blow it apart with fire – […]

The Imitation Game stars Benedict Cumberbatch as the late Alan Turing, the mathmetician and logician who cracked the Enigma code, which led to the defeat of the Germans in World War II, but who was persecuted for his homosexuality and then went on to eat a poisoned apple, thus taking his own life. The film […]

Penguins of Madagascar – Following the TV series spun-off of the Madagascar films, we now get the obligatory big-screen outing. Super spy teams aren’t born… they’re hatched. Discover the secrets of the greatest and most hilarious covert birds in the global espionage biz: Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private. These elitists of the elite are joining […]

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is the final chapter in Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy, and was originally going to be subtitled “There and Back Again”, but “The Battle of the Five Armies” is a better title. Sounds more cool! In this final part, deemed “The Defining Chapter”, obsessed above all else with […]